The reason why Windows has this stuff is because it never was particularly supportive of remote terminals. Going back to DOS days, when writing a console app, it was either the kind that only needed print, or else you basically had full control over the screen area, changing individual characters, colors etc in a random access way. The first approach would use DOS output functions that allowed for things like stdout/stderr to work. The second approach couldn't be redirected properly.

Windows inherited that model, and mostly just kept developing it until lately.